The Incas
Essential to understand Inca culture in all its aspects: origin, economy, social organization, religion and art. This is an introduction to life in the Tawantinsuyo, which is opposite to the versions provided by Spanish historians, whom imposed their occidental interpretation to a very Franklin Pease, well-known Peruvian historian, dedicated his entire life to study Inca civilization.
In The Incas, Peruvian historian Franklin Pease explores all aspects of life in the Tawantinsuyu, the great Inca empire that stretched for thousands of miles along the Andes of modernday Bolivia, Chile, Ecuadro and Peru. Pease does so by reexamining the sources of most of our knowledge of this complex society, the "chronocles" written during and after the Spanish conquest by a disparate group of soldiers, priests, colonial administrators ands the descendants of this protagonists, often themselves of mixed Andean-Spanish blood. This account opens a window into the Inca universe, vividly explaining everything from the Inca polity and economic structures to its agriculture, transportation infrastructure, creation myths and religious beliefs. It also takes great care to avoid the common historioraphical error of projecting onto the Incas, arguably the last great civilization to have existed without contac with the "Old World" western ways of seeing and imagining the universe.
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Franklin Pease García-Yrigoyen (1939-1999). Ph.D. in History from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, were he tauht from 1965. He was director of the National Library of Peru, director of the National Museum of History, and founder and director of the journal Historica.
Introduction
Chapter I
The Andes, its History and the Incas
Inca History
The Predecessors of the Incas in the Andes
Chapter II
The Origin of the Incas
The Early Organization of Cusco and the Formation of the Tawantinsuyu
The Inca Conquests
Chapter III
The Inca Economy
Labor
Agriculture
Agricultural Technology
Livestock
Metallurgy
The Administration of Production
Storehouses
The Quipus
Chapter IV
The Organization of Society
The Dualism
The Inca
The Cusco Elite
The Curaca: Ethnic Lord
Inca and Local Administration
The Population and Population Policy
Chapter V
Description of Cusco
Chapter VI
The Inca Religion
Andean Cosmovision
Calendar
The Huacas and the Sacred
The Inca Sun Religion
Chapter VII
Art and Culture
Chapter VIII
The Incas after the Spanish Invasion
Glossary of Quechua terms
Basic Bibliography
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- Artikel-Nr.: SW15587
- Artikelnummer SW15587
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Autor
Franklin Pease
- Verlag Fondo Editorial de la PUCP
- Seitenzahl 178
- Veröffentlichung 01.09.2015
- ISBN 9786123171100